JOHN GRUNDY

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1 JOHN GRUNDY First President IHVE 1898 A detailed biography is available elsewhere on this web site under Victorian Heating Engineers

2 Grundy s premises in City Road, London

3 Advertisement from 1891

4 Advertisement from 1897

5 Open Fires And Stoves. Part 3 The Grundy Grate is somewhat similar to the Galton grate, and is shown in Plate XVII. The fresh-air opening through the outer wall is shown at a, or, if more convenient, it can be put lower down as at b, or carried as a channel along the skirting-board or below the floor-boards in either direction. The cold air, entering this flue, passes under the cast-iron base-plate c. If the inlet is at B, the air reaches the warm-air chamber D round the back of the fire-grate, and passes into the room through the warm-air duct H, which has a regulating valve K. The grating itself is lettered f, and the bars g, while the whole of the back of the fire consists of firebrick, marked E. This grate is made in various sizes with various heating capacities. It is obvious that the condition of the warm air entering the room will be, so far as purity is concerned, exactly the same as the external air, and if this is charged with soot, dust, or fog, these matters will be delivered into the room. In the grates described no arrangement is made to purify the incoming air, and while such fireplaces may be suitable for country-houses, they may not be satisfactory for town-houses. Another point is that, in order to obtain economy in the use of the fuel, it is desirable to block up the space between the grate and the hearth, but this point will be specially brought out in dealing with the following type of grate. Fig 458 section of the Galton Independent More a a. fresh-air flues b b, smoke-flue. c c, fire-clay. 1 The fire-clay, however, will more easily crack and to admit the smoke into the air-flues.- 1 ED. PLATE XVII.

6 Grundy's Warm-Air Ventilating Fire-Grate A. Fresh Cold-air Inlet Grating. B. Fresh Cold-air Inlet Grating (alternative position). C. Cast-iron Base Plate.

7 D. Warm-air Chamber. E. Firebrick Back. F. Bottom (irate. G. Front Bars. H. Warm air Duct. J. Warm-air Outlet Grating. K. Regulating Valve. L. Cast iron Mantel. M. Cast iron Sealing Plate. N. Brickwork Slope. O. Smoke Flue. (Above text and diagrams from chestofbooks.com)

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9 (Text extract from A Practical Treatise: Warming Buildings by Hot Water, Chas Hood, rewritten by Frederick Dye, 1897)

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14 Grundy receipt from 1891

15 (CIBSE Heritage Group Collection)

16 Grundy stove, St Paul s Church, Deptford, London

17 Oil-fired Grundy heater St Barnabas Church, Epsom (now destroyed)

18 FOOTNOTE (Entry from CIBSE Heritage Group Records: Items marked TB indicate references from The Builder, giving year and page numbers over the period )

19 Sir GOLDSWORTHY GURNEY Inventor of the steam carriage and the Gurney stove

20 A biography A detailed biography is available elsewhere on this web site under Victorian Heating Engineers

21 Gurney steam carriage Gurney stove, Salisbury Cathedral

22 1897 advertisement

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24 (Text extract from The Palace of Westminster, Sir Robert Cooke, 1987)

25 (From The Palace of Westminster )

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27 (Text extract from The Great Palace, Christopher Jones, 1983) Gurney stove in St Nicholas Church, Grosmont, Monmouthshire

28 Gurney s experiments in Parliament (reference unknown)

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30 (Text extract from Warming Buildings, Frederick Dye, 1897) Gurney stove in Chester Cathedral

31 Gurney stove in Bude

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33 ( Building Services, February 1985)

34 Book title page 2003 (CIBSE Heritage Group Collection)

35 FOOTNOTE (Entry from CIBSE Heritage Group Records: Items marked TB indicate references from The Builder, giving year and page numbers over the period )